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Mad dancing around the world

July 18th, 2008

I don’t know how this bloke talked a chewing-gum manufacture into sponsoring his life of travel, but I wish I had thought of it. I couldn’t stop smiling through this mad clip, but his Indian dancing was classic!

Jill Bolte Taylor on TED talks.

July 15th, 2008

My work colleague sent me a link to this TED talk, and it is well worth watching. Jill Bolte Taylor, a neuro-anatomist, had a massive stroke and gained the most amazing insights into her brain and her spirituality.

George and Uncle Sam

July 4th, 2008

Seriously funny. For those outside of Australia, George Negus runs a (usually) serious world current affairs program called Dateline. Uncle Sam is a character from Salam Cafe, who has been running a campaign to build TEN Islamic schools in Camden (the town that in real life, recently voted to reject an Islamic school after an anti-Islam campaign backed by Fred Nile’s “No More Muslims” Christian Democrats.)

One way to respond to a threatening Scientology letter

June 27th, 2008

Invisible bike thieves

June 20th, 2008

The video below is from the Neistat Brothers showing how easy it is steal a bike in the middle of busy New York city. The subtext is that nobody cares really, but I think what also contributes to the complete ease in which the bikes can be stolen, is that people aren’t *expecting* a bike thief to just brazenly steal in broad daylight. People think of thieves as skulking in the dark with balaclavas over their heads. Still, it is fascinating.